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Dear GM Prasad and GM Panchanathan :
I am grateful to see the revival of this weekly column after IM Silman. Thank you! Hope you can answer a few of my questions below:
a) I understand that in order to become better one has to accept losing many... |Read More

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After winning the blitz on Monday, GM Michael Adams got off to a great start at the London Chess Classic. In a rollercoaster game he defeated GM Fabiano Caruana.
Both Nakamura-Giri and Kramnik-Anand ended in draws. Round two will ... | Read More

Chessopedia

An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position. It is typically used by a computer chess engine during play, or by a human or computer that is retrospectively anal...
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Garry Kasparov, originally named Weinstein, was born on April 13, 1963. He is unainamously regarded as the greatest chess player of all time. In 1976, he was the strongest player in the world under age 13. He became a grandmaster at 17, the ...
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Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. He is the only person to have won th...
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Each of the pieces in chess has a different value indicating its usefulness relative to other pieces. Under most systems, including that used in the "Details" section of Chess.com games, a pawn is worth one point, a knight is worth three points, a...
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John Anthony Curdo was born on November 14, 1931 in Lynn, Massachusetts and now lives in Auburn, Massachusetts. He is a FIDE master (current Elo rating 2275, maximum Elo rating 2305). He has won the Massachusetts state championship 18 times ...
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